The Brussels Business Page #4
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I think we talked
to one newspaper ...
... and there was a radio
program that was interested.
For the rest,
it was silence.
We did not know when the
positioned papers we quoted later on.
But there was also a very
neatly organized archive.
Everything sorted.
So we decided to be fast
and copy as much as possible.
letters from the ERT ...
... and demands from the ER to the European Government ...
... and to the
European Commission.
And there were
the responses.
It really showed us the degree
of access that they had.
And incredible influence that
was clear from those documents.
So when we tracked back
the history of the ERT, ...
... we found that it
started in the early '80s.
that multinational firms ...
politically at the European level, ...
... to try to influence
European policy.
In the early 1980s,
Europe was behind.
... of course, strong
United States and ...
... Europe was really
concerned about falling behind.
What happened
actually is that ...
... Pehr Gyllenhamar from
Volvo started talking about ...
... trying to find a way to create
a marshall plan for Europe.
Gyllenhamar himself was
known as a political animal.
He loved a limelight.
So Gyllenhamar drew up a list
of heads of multinational firms.
Individuals who might
come together ...
... and come up with some ideas
and actually participate ...
economic problems at the time.
From the Commission, ...
... the member of the Commission who
was really keen was the Belgian ...
... called
Stevie Davignon.
He had diplomatic and
business background ...
... and he could see
the need and he said, ...
... 'If I want to talk to European
industry, who do I talk to?'
What I found out when I was
commisioner for industry ...
... that there was an insufficient contact
inbetween the Commission and the ...
... economic apparatus.
was a relation with ...
... federations of Industries at,
I would say, the official level.
But not at the level of
the people who were ...
... responsible for a
individual businesses.
And I felt that we
are missing this.
And so we
decided to set up ...
... group of industrialists,
which later became the ERT, ...
... so as to have the capacity
to listen to the CEO's.
There were Agnelli's
who run Fiat in Italy.
There was Wise Dekker who
run Philips' in the Netherlands.
There was Pehr Gyllenhamar
who run Volvo in Sweden.
People from Siemens and big
German chemical companies.
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